How To Create A English horn A Best Idea 💡

How To  Create A English horn A Best Idea 💡

 English Horn is exactly the same thing. Kor simply means Horn and Anglia means English. Some people like to say Koranglay. Some people like to say, English Horn. Neither term is better than the other. English Horn just because that's what I grew up with. Also, just to be clear, French Horn is a brass instrument that has nothing to do with English Horn. So English Horn is an F instrument, which means that it transposes down a perfect fourth from the concert pitch.

 English Horn is from low B to high F, sort of. While English horns can all go down to low B, some have a low B flat extension. The thing about the low B flat extension is that you can't play a low B when you're using the lobby flat extension. That being said, there are some uncommon English horns that can play both B and B flat, but you should assume that your English foreign player can only play down to a low B. As for the top range, English Horn can play above high F, maybe too high G, but you should really stick to high F. Notes above F are going to be inconsistent out of tune and might not even come out on certain English horns. Unlike the oboe, English Horn is pretty consistent dynamically throughout its range. However, it doesn't get quite as loud.

 While it certainly can project due to the way the instrument and the reads are made, it has a softer, more mellow sound. In general, this makes it really perfect as a solo instrument, but as an ensemble instrument, it can sometimes get buried. That being said, it blends great in an oboe or double read section, and you certainly don't have to think of it only as a solo instrument. So let's talk about doubling on the English Horn when writing for a player. Switching back and forth between oboe and English Horn, you have to remember their reads. 

 Double reads are hard to deal with. They need to be soaked in the water right before playing, but not for too short and not for too long. And they also dry out really quickly. If you read a really quick switch from oboe to English Horn or English Horn to oboe, you might end up forcing your player to play in a read that isn't ready and is not going to sound good. Don't worry too much obsessed and English foreign players are really good at strategizing when to soak their reads, but just make sure to give them a little bit of time on that note. If you're writing a beautiful, delicate English Horn solo in the middle of your piece, make sure to give them something to play on English Horn before that solo.

 Otherwise, they're going to be playing their instrument cold for the first time on their solo. Extended techniques on English Horn are pretty similar to the oboe, although there are a couple of differences. First of all, because of the bigotry English foreign players have an easier time than the oboe is scooping and bending the pitch. English Horn also has an additional part called the vocal which you can do a couple of things with. 

 For instance, you can play just the read and the vocal. You can also take the vocal, stop up one end, and play like a beer bottle. Besides that, extended techniques on English Horn are basically the same as oboe flutter tongue tapping the keys, buzzing into the body, playing just the read crowing, no sound aspirated air attack harmonics and double harmonics the kiss or smooch effect playing the top joint alone and multiphonics and that's it.